affixes
Prefix and suffix
Affixes are word elements attached to a root to modify meaning or grammatical function.
Prefixes attach at the beginning (un-, pre-, anti-), suffixes at the end (-ness, -ing, -able).
English relies heavily on affixation for forming new words: unhappiness combines a prefix, root, and suffix.
The verb affix means to attach or fasten something to a surface.
morphology
Root-modifying front element
- suffixWord-ending addition
- infixAffix within a word
- morphemeSmallest meaningful language unit
- derivationalCreating words via affixes
inflectional · root · stem · agglutination · bound · free · productive · affricate
prefix
Root-modifying front element
derivational · inflectional · root · stem · agglutination · bound · free · productive · affricate · transfix
attach
Join or connect
join · add · bind · connect · fix · annex · adjoin · concatenate · tack · subjoin
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